White House press secretary Sean Spicer says President Trump expects Russia to give back Crimea to Ukraine. During a press briefing Tuesday, White House spokesman Sean Spicer said U.S. President Donald Trump has made it clear that he expects Moscow to “return” the Crimea peninsula to Ukraine.
There are two key events on Washington's docket today both of which could be market moving: first Yellen continues her testimony on monetary policy in Congress, this time before the House, while President Trump is set to meet Israel's Prime Minister Netanyahu.
Here’s a look at scheduled events of interest today in Washington, courtesy of Bloomberg. All times Eastern:
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The latest Trump foreign policy keeps getting stranger by the minute. Overnight, as the three liberal-leaning US newspaper launched another attack on Trump, alleging that officials linked to the president, most notably Tim Manafort, engaged Russian intel officials in the not too distant past, the Russian government dismissed allegations that the country’s intelligence officials were in repeated contact with Donald Trump’s team ahead of the US election.
With the news cycle once again squarely focused on Mike Flynn in particular, and the Trump Administration's ties to Russia in general following a volley of news last night from NYT, WaPo and CNN that Trump advisors allegedly communicated with members of Russian intellgience in the year preceding the election, it was expected that Trump's first comment of the day would be focused on the story du jour, and sure enough in his first tweet on Wednesday, President Trump blasted the “fake news media,” saying it is “going crazy with conspiracy theories and blind hatred.”
An insider who worked with billionaire George Soros claims that Soros is orchestrating the elimination of cash in order to usher in a “world government”. According to former Soros colleague Jim Rogers, many governments around the world are already phasing out the use of cash which he says is all part of a move to advance the New World Order’s agenda. Infowars.com reports: “Governments are always looking out for themselves first, and it’s the same old thing that has been going on for hundreds of years,” he said during an interview with the MacroVoices Podcast.